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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Chipotle Rocks


Chipotle is by far one of our favorite picks for lunch here at the MBM office. The food is awesome and the ingredients are always fresh and delicious! If you haven't had their chips and guacamole you are missing out.

Not only do they have really good food, Chipotle gets points for its cool marketing including messages and stories on its bags, an interactive website with easy ordering tools and intriguing billboards. In addition, Chipotle has now launched a social-media and web driven campaign to raise money for a non-profit called The Lunch Box. The Lunch Box is a new initiative from the F3: Food Family Farming Foundation that will offer 100,000 schools nationwide (32 million children) recipes and other tools for implementing healthy, whole foods-based, economical meal programs. The campaign is called "No Junk" and asks Chipotle fans to email them their junk emails at nojunk@chipotlejunk.com.

Here's how it works. For every 100,000 junk emails received, Chipotle will donate $10,000 (up to $50k maximum). The idea behind the campaign is to help people get rid of the junk in their lives and do something good to help others. Pretty cool, huh?

As a marketer, I like this campaign for many different reasons. One, it stays in line with the brand of the company in all aspects of the campaign (the message, the non-profit, etc). Second, it's a great way to raise awareness for the company by focusing on how it gives back to the community while highlighting how the food they offer fits into the "non junk" category. This will hopefully position them in the minds of some consumers who might not have realized that they use only free range meats fed vegetarian diets with no antibiotics, etc. This campaign is also a good example of how to make social media work to promote a brand.

Want to learn more about the campaign? Visit http://www.facebook.com/#!/chipotle?ref=ts.
Or read this article http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=130826.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Back in Action - Sort Of


I am back at work after a week of beach vacation on Bald Head Island, NC. It was our first visit to BHI and it was wonderful! There really isn't anything to do but go to the beach, play at the pool, enjoy the scenery and drive around in golf carts. I found the simplicity of it all to be very relaxing compared to my normal life of distractions and stimuli. We hardly even turned on the tv other than the occasional kiddo program. Ah, vacation!


But now I am back at work - sort of. Everyone here took such good care of everything while I was gone there isn't that much catching up to do. Thanks fellow MBM-ers for picking up the slack! I hope everyone gets a chance to take some time off and really relax! And if you need someone to pick up the marketing slack for you while you're gone, just let us know!

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Let Your Light Shine

I just returned from a special trip to Nice, France and Corsica. At Place Massena in Nice there are these sculptures atop 3-story poles. By day they were white sentries, by night they subtly changed colors. It was part of a commitment to public art.

The main reason for our trip was to see my husband's cousins and the village his grandfather came from in Corsica. It was a beautiful trip full of family (30 from the U.S. plus 9 still in Corsica). A week of getting to know family gives you a chance to discover how you fit into the bigger picture - and to see what talents and skills others have.

It's nice to make friends with your family. And it's nice to find the qualities that are best about yourself and really let those shine.

Monday, June 21, 2010

Muse!

I've spent the last 6 months as the Un-Gala Chair for the 2010 Muse Awards. Muse is an event put on by the Virginia Museum of Fine Art (VMFA), in which the VMFA's Business Council (made up by local businesspeople) awards companies for "creativity in business". Paired with the awards process and ceremony is a huge "un-gala", held at the VMFA, complete with a fun theme, costumes, tasty food, and an open bar.

This is the second year that I've been involved with planning the Un-Gala portion of the Muse Awards, and it was especially fun this year because the party was held in the newly completed wing.

Fellow MBMers Kelly and our new intern, Mary-Blanche, came out for the party as well!


And check out some of the press coverage here.

Friday, June 4, 2010

Flying Squirrels Game!















This past Tuesday we spent our second quarter MBM Outing at The Diamond! It was a great time, and unfortunately, the Flying Squirrels didn't win, but we all enjoyed the game and Nutzy's antics. The threat of evening storms almost ruined our night of baseball, but cleared up just in time for the game. It was "Tribute to the Marshmallow" night, so we learned that a marshmallow Peep has only 32 calories and other marshmallow trivia throughout the game. Richard also was given a free Ledo pizza, so that was unexpected fun as well.


Here are some pics from the outing.